Candy package



July 3, 1928.

J. E. LIEBRICH CANDY PACKAGE Filed April 1, 1925 Patented July 3, 1928.

UNITED STATES JOHN E. LIEBRICH, 0F INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

CANDY PACKAGE.

Application filed April 1, 1925. Serial No. 18,778.

My invention relates to improvements in candy packages and the method of producing the same.

()ne of the objects of my invention is to provide an improved form of separator for the layers of candies adapted to be packed in boxes and for the individual pieces of candy and to provide an improved method of producing this separator.

For the purpose of disclosing my invention I have illustrated certain embodiments thereof in the accompanying drawings in which,

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the separator with it the candy pieces laid thereon before the individual piece separators are formed; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a box showin the candy packed therein;

ig. 3 is an end elevation of the structure iilustrated in Fig. 1, and

Fig. 4 is a perspective v ew of an apparatus for inserting and folding the separator in the box.

In the embodiment illustrated I rovlde a sheet 1 which may be of any suita le ma terial although I have found that for my purposes the paper commercially known as oiled or paraflin paper possesses decided advantages. This sheet 18 considerably larger, both transversely and longitudinally than the box in which the candies are to be packed. The candies, generally in the form of chocolate covered candies, are placed while warm in suitable spaced relation on the sheet. Due to the fact that the candies are warm when placed on the sheet they will slightly adhere to the sheet. The sheet is then compressed, both longitudinally and transversely which causes that portion of the sheet intermediate of the candies to double up upon itself, substantially as shown at 2 in dotted lines in Fig. 3, whereb each individual' candy will be separated rom those adjacent it by avertical separator. The

sheet is then placed in the box and a second layer, formed in substantially the same manner, is placed on top of the first, the number of layers, one on top of the other, depending upon the quantity of candy to be filled in each box.

In Fig. 4 I have illustrated an apparatus for automatically shaping the separators, In this figure chocolate coated candies in this instance are received from the automatic coater 3 and are deposited upon a belt eonveyor 4. .Arranged beneath the belt eonveyor is a roll 5 of separatin paper and the end of this paper is broug t up and laid over the top of the conveyor so that the conveyor will feed forward with a layer of paper on the top of the same. As the candies are deposited on the conveyor they are placed upon the paper covering the same and as the paper and candies are fed for ward they are delivered into an inclined chute 6 having vertical sides 7 which converge at their delivery end to the width of the box to be packed. The box 8 to be packed is supported on a suitable shelf 9 beneath the chute'and as the paper feeds forward the edge of the pa er impinges against the end of the box fol ing the paper upon-itself between the candy pieces to form the vertical dividers transversely of the box and as the paper feeds into the box the sides are compressed so that the vertical dividers extending lon itudinally of the box are formed. The Iiox, during the filling process, is moved away from the chute more slowly than the and when a lengt desired number of fed into the chute suitable knife 10.

I claim as my invention:

1. An article separator adapted to contai a plurality of articles, comprising a separator sheet having integral vertical irregular puckers on all sides of each article placed thereon and forming separators for the individual articles on the sheet.

2. An article separator sheet adapted to contain a plurality of articles and compris' ing a flexible separator sheet upon which a plurality of articles are adapted to rest, said sheet having integral vertical irregular puckers folded in the sheet on all sides of each of the articles thereon between the adjacent articles.

3. A separator sheet for articles adapted to contain a plurality of articles, comprisi of paper containing the pieces of candy has been aper is fed into the box it may be sliced ofi bye a separator sheet upon which the articles are adapted to rest having that per-Lion of the sheet adjacent each article crinkled to form a nest for the article.

In witness whereof, I, JOHN E. Lmmuou, have hereunto set-my hand at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 30th day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five.

JOHN E. LIEBBICH; 

